When the Vendée Globe starts Sunday November 8 there will be 13 out of the 33 starters who have put their faith in an NKE pilot to help helm their Imoca – a fairly stable market share over the years.
The Australian Zhik brand formalized signed last August an exclusive distribution partnership with Plastimo to develop their presence in the French and Belgian market.
It is a topic that continues to have increased importance within the sailboat racing world: sustainable development. Under pressure from the public, some sponsors and its own constituent sailors competitive sailing continues to focus on sustainability as a fundamental topic….
It is pretty much the universal fear which inhabits the minds of offshore racers: worrying about collisions with the an unseen floating object. In a fraction of a second such an incident can eliminate a sailor from the Vendée Globe or the Route du Rhum. French company BSB Marine has developed a computer vision system named Oscar.
Those amazing images of foilers flat out, raising delicate, directed spumes of spray remind us that sailing is in the midst of a new sporting and technological era. But behind the flying, foiling revolution there is another, perhaps less visible paradigm shift, the explosion of data. The domain of AIM45.
For many fans, the name Quantum is synonymous with the team bearing that name that has been at the top of the 52 Super Series for many seasons. The US headquartered sailmaker hopes to get back into ocean racing.
With 27,000 boats produced over the course of four decades, First is a name that has now spanned several generations of sailors and regattas. Busy with its developments elsewhere since the year 2010, the world’s number 1 in yachting had kind of left the line to one side, that was before they decided a relaunch was due.
The boat building facility in Vannes a subsidiary of the Carboman Group wants to build an Imoca for the upcoming edition of The Ocean Race.
It is quite a specific segment of the yachting market but right now it is a dynamic, flourishing niche that is igniting the interest and passions of sailors, and stimulating the appetites of boatbuilders to develop new designs. The phenomenon is now being well served by French based J Composites. In 2018 the team, under Didier Le Moal, which has been building J/Boats udner licence in the Vendée for almost 25 years, alerted the well known Johnstone family, originators of J/Boats to the trend…..
It does not happen so often in racing sponsorship: an equipment manufacturer gives its name to a sailing event. After a successful first experience last year, Plastimo is teaming up again with Lorient Grand Large, the organiser of the first Atlantic-side Mini 6.50 race in the season in France, and names the event the Plastimo Lorient Mini 6.50. For the french company based in Lorient, it means much more than simply lending a hand.
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